使用List <string>作为属性</string>从对象列表中获取唯一值

时间:2013-06-18 15:05:46

标签: c# asp.net visual-studio-2010 linq

为了便于说明,我有一个简单的Employee类,其中包含几个字段和一个删除Certifications属性中多次出现的方法

public int EmployeeId { get; set; }
        public string FirstName { get; set; }
        public string LastName { get; set; }

        private List<string> certifications = new List<string>();
        public List<string> Certifications
        {
            get { return certifications; }
            set { certifications = value; }
        }

public List<string> RemoveDuplicates(List<string> s)
        {
            List<string> dupesRemoved = s.Distinct().ToList();
            foreach(string str in dupesRemoved)
                Console.WriteLine(str);
            return dupesRemoved;
        }

RemoveDuplicates方法将删除Employee对象的Certifications属性中的任何重复字符串。现在考虑我是否有一个Employee对象列表。

 Employee e = new Employee();
           List<string> stringList = new List<string>();
           stringList.Add("first");
           stringList.Add("second");
           stringList.Add("third");
           stringList.Add("first");
           e.Certifications = stringList;
          // e.Certifications = e.RemoveDuplicates(e.Certifications); works fine

           Employee e2 = new Employee();
           e2.Certifications.Add("fourth");
           e2.Certifications.Add("fifth");
           e2.Certifications.Add("fifth");
           e2.Certifications.Add("sixth");

           List<Employee> empList = new List<Employee>();
           empList.Add(e);
           empList.Add(e2);

我可以用

foreach (Employee emp in empList)
           {
               emp.Certifications = emp.RemoveDuplicates(emp.Certifications);
           }

从列表中的所有员工那里获取所有唯一认证的列表,但我想在LINQ中执行此操作,类似于

stringList = empList.Select(emp => emp.Certifications.Distinct().ToList());

这给我一个错误说

Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<System.Collections.Generic.List<string>>' to 'System.Collections.Generic.List<string>'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?)  

如何从Employee对象列表中获取唯一认证列表?

4 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:21)

如果我理解,您需要列出所有员工中的所有独特认证。这将是SelectMany的工作:

var uniqueCerts = empList.SelectMany(e => e.Certifications).Distinct().ToList();

答案 1 :(得分:3)

您想使用SelectMany,它允许您选择子列表,但以平面形式返回它们:

stringList = empList.SelectMany(emp => emp.Certifications).Distinct().ToList();

答案 2 :(得分:0)

您可以尝试使用SelectMany扩展程序吗?

var employeeCertifications = (from e in employeeList select e.Certifications).SelectMany(x => x).Distinct();

答案 3 :(得分:0)

如果要为变量设置类型,请尝试使用Select()

List<string> employeeCertifications =
    employeeList.Select(e => e.Certifications).Distinct().ToList();